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Next Step to Stardom: Spence vs Khan
Errol Spence Jr. is now a world champion, becoming one under circumstances not common to this generation of fighters. He took on the most talented welterweight in the ...
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Brook vs Spence: Closer to The Truth
Tomorrow night at Bramall Lane Ground in Sheffield, England, IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook will defend his belt against fearsome up-and-comer Errol Spence Jr. If most fight fans ...
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Porter Defeats Berto: Time For Thurman vs Porter II
Multiple cuts and myriad head clashes couldn’t discourage Shawn Porter’s relentless onslaught against Andre Berto, resulting in a ninth-round stoppage win for “Showtime” that should lead to an anticipated ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 126
Once again, time for Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! Congrats to Custio Clayton! 2017 is going to be a big year for one of Montreal’s top prospects! Congratulations ...
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Thurman-Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Saturday night in Brooklyn, WBA champion Keith Thurman and WBC boss Danny Garcia will unify the same welterweight titles Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought over in ...
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2016 Fight Of The Year
2016 Fight Of The Year Nominations: Carl Frampton W12 Leo Santa Cruz: Healthy contingents of both Irish and Mexican fight fans created a raucous atmosphere as Frampton and ...
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2016 Round Of The Year
Round of the Year Nominations: Carlos Cuadras vs Roman Gonzalez: Round 5 Adonis Stevenson vs Thomas Williams Jr.: Round 4 Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter: Round 9 Orlando ...
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2016: The Nominees
Another year is in the books and it’s time to weigh-in on the major accomplishments in boxing for 2016. In many respects this was not a great year ...
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The Fight City’s Holiday Wish List
So today is Christmas Day and while not all of us celebrate it or sing praises to the babe in the manger, we can all get in the ...
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PBC’s Hard Lessons
Last week two high profile articles hit the web describing in almost grotesque detail the way Premier Boxing Champions—Al Haymon’s infamous boxing league—has been bled nearly dry. The ...
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Teddy Atlas: Boxing Is About Second Chances
Boxing is Teddy Atlas’ life. As a youngster he fought amateur bouts and was a Golden Gloves champion. Chronic back problems cut short his career and he moved ...
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Did Crawford vs Postol Belong On PPV?
It takes no courage whatsoever to say after the fact that a particular match-up did not deserve the build-up that it received. I am on record as saying ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 83
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! This week we’re talkin’ Javier Fortuna, Francy Ntetu, Bruno Lurette, Xavier Alaoui, Conor Benn, Chris Eubank Jr, Anthony Joshua, Heather ...
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The Weekend That Was
With two big cards happening in Brooklyn, NY and London, England, it was a lively weekend for pro boxing with several fights of major significance and a dash ...
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Thurman vs Porter: Preview & Picks
Boxing guru Al Haymon has taken more than a little heat for the lack of compelling match-ups on his Premiere Boxing Champions series. Indeed, many of the fight ...
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Custio Clayton: Global Ambition
Whether in Canada or elsewhere, there are few welterweight prospects whose talents match those of Custio Clayton. The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia native, who trains out of Club de Boxe de ...
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Superfight For Kell Brook?
Back in August of 2014, following an ugly contest marred by excessive clinching and frequent rabbit punches, Kell Brook supplanted Shawn Porter as IBF welterweight champion. The unbeaten underdog ...
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Adrien Broner: It’s Over
“You never could shoot, not from the very beginning.” “And you were all mouth.” I found this bit of dialogue from the end of “Butch Cassidy and The ...
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Fight Report: Brook vs Bizier
The Event Kell Brook is generally regarded as one of the best welterweights in the world, ranked behind only Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley. He holds the IBF ...
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Shawn Porter: “I Want To End It In One Round”
Former IBF welterweight champion “Showtime” Shawn Porter will be more than prepared for his fight against reigning WBA welterweight titleholder Keith “One Time” Thurman, if he has anything ...
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Lou DiBella: “I Would Love To Promote Wilder vs Fury”
Our correspondent at Saturday night’s Deontay Wilder vs Artur Szpilka event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Chris Connor, got some interesting video of Wilder’s promoter, Lou DiBella, holding ...
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The Smartest Man In Boxing?
“Too #blessed to be stressed!! How all my people doin out there on this beautiful Monday??” These words appeared on Twitter last week and they came from the ...
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Dear Paulie
Dear Paulie, When I first learned you were fighting Danny Garcia, my concern for you almost matched my disappointment in Danny. After all, and despite his recent lackluster ...
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Shawn Porter Wins Battle For Ohio
Akron, Ohio can rest easy knowing that their brood, Shawn Porter, overcame a plethora of obstacles to defeat Adrien Broner by unanimous decision on NBC. Broner, a Cincinnati ...
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Broner vs Porter: The Battle For Ohio
“I was not only the coach, I was the jailer. I sat there with a baseball bat. I was only joking, but I told them that if anyone ...
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Mark Your Calendar
If the month of May was a woman then the first date didn’t go so well. Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao had many of us giddy with excitement ...
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Is Amir Khan Ducking Kell Brook?
Kell Brook’s IBF welterweight title defense against Jo Jo Dan last Saturday has left him with a tantalizing list of potential opponents for summer 2015, but the name ...
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Friday Matters
The Al Haymon Boxing League rolls on for the second weekend in a row. Last Saturday, Haymon and his protégés took over Las Vegas, where Keith Thurman emerged ...
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Pray to the Boxing Gods: Our 2015 Dream Fight Wish List
Good riddance to the cesspool of mismatches, robberies, and lack of appealing fights that was 2014! The new year is here and well underway so it’s time to ...
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Weekend at Haymon’s
If you look close enough, there’s lots of reasons to pay attention to the boxing card Al Haymon has put together for this Saturday in Nevada. Unfortunately, they ...
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